Improved means tor putting up and using powders



utm gime Vanni @wie AMos P. WILLARD, or BATTLE CREEK'MICHIIGAN.

Latem Patent No. 94,263, dated August 3i, 1869.

IMPROVE!) MEANS FOR P UTTING-- UP .AND USING-POWDERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

declare that the following'is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and being a part of this specification.

'lhe nature of this invention relates to the construction of a suitable box, within which to put up any soluble coloring-mattenso that by dipping the box in water, a suicient amount of coloring may he extracted fiom the box by dissolving said coloringmatter.

The invention consists in a wooden cup or circular box, provided with a handle, said cup or box being turned from one piece of wood, and designedto hold soluble coloring-matter, such as a compound of soluble bluing and oxalic acid, or other similar matter, which is held and confined in said cup or box by means of a piece of muslin or other thin textile fabric, tied or otherwise secured over the open end of the cup or box.

In the drawings- -Arepresents a cup or circular box, provided. with yhandle' B, both cup and box being turned or worked from onev piece of timber. v

Over' the open end of this cup `,is drawn tightly a piece of muslin, C, or other thin textile fabric, for the purpose of retaining the contents of'said cup in place, and of allowing them to escape only when dissolved. This piece of mnslin may he secured by tying or in any other suitable wa- Y. p

The box 'or cup being filled, for instance, with solucup, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. AMOS P. WILLARD.

\Vit-uesses JAS. I. DAY, H. F. EBEnTs.

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